DORADO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dorado mean? 

• DORADO (noun)
  The noun DORADO has 1 sense:

1. a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor; contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud

  Familiarity information: DORADO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DORADO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor; contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

 Context examples 

TOI 700 is a small, cool M dwarf star located just over 100 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)

Dorado Outcrop is not a great place to start an octopus family.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

Nearly two miles deep in the Pacific Ocean and 100 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, scientists on two oceanographic cruises used subsea vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of seafloor formed of cooled and hardened lava from an underwater volcano.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)